Sentences with phrase «progressive agenda committee»

«It didn't work because we reached out to the candidates, and they weren't willing to participate,» de Blasio said Wednesday, a day after the Progressive Agenda Committee, the group he founded, canceled the candidate forum planned for December.

The forum, which was to be sponsored by the Progressive Agenda Committee, a group founded by de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray, was an effort to inject the issue of income inequality into the presidential elections.

The Progressive Agenda Committee is funded by the Campaign For One New York, the nonprofit group de Blasio started to raise money for his mayoral priorities, such as universal pre-kindergarten and affordable housing.

Tuesday marked the deadline for presidential candidates to express interest in attending an aspirationally bipartisan Iowa presidential forum sponsored by The Progressive Agenda Committee, the national advocacy group founded by de Blasio, New York City's liberal Democratic mayor.

Rebecca Katz, a spokeswoman for The Progressive Agenda Committee, said the Committee would make no announcements about the attendees until official invitations go out in November.

But a month after leaving City Hall, Prim left Hilltop to serve as the political director for The Progressive Agenda Committee, de Blasio's effort to influence the presidential election to focus on income inequality.

The de Blasio - founded Progressive Agenda Committee has asked presidential candidates to let it know by Tuesday if they want to attend a Dec. 6 presidential forum on income inequality in Iowa City.

He also said the newly formed Progressive Agenda Committee, a nonprofit dedicated to getting politicians to sign on to the Progressive Agenda planks would hold a bipartisan presidential candidate forum in Iowa to establish where Clinton and the other candidates stood on the issues.

Not exact matches

«Pelosi is already the most unpopular politician in America — something House Democratic candidates would agree with — and the prospect of her implementing an extremely progressive agenda will be a huge motivator for Republicans this fall,» National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Jesse Hunt wrote in an email to reporters.

Following up on a resolution adopted by the State Committee of the Green Party at the party's nominating convention in Troy on Saturday, May 17, Green Party leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy goals.

«After putting forward a progressive and balanced education agenda in the initial draft of the 2016 Democratic Platform, this weekend the Platform Drafting Committee inexplicably allowed the process to be hijacked at the last minute.

The confirmation vote was «just the beginning of a relentless, principled resistance to her radical agenda,» Kait Sweeney, a spokeswoman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said.